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After a few hundred union members clad in red flooded the Capitol, several described a shortage of English as a second language teachers and paraprofessionals who work with students with disabilities, the need for school employees who specialize in helping children who’ve experienced trauma, and a lack of resources for homeless students.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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So the vermin of CTU have to choose between their students and their paychecks. Golly, what a surprise is their choice? Of course the grifter terrorists choose to extort the taxpayers of Illinois and abandon their students. CTU are not teachers for certain. Bust this union now. School vouchers for all. Competition will burn off this rats nest of parasites in very little time.